The Book Immigrant Voices by Thomas Dublin is focused on giving readers a close view of what things were like for immigrants between the years of 1773-1986. It contains diaries, letters, autobiographies, and interviews of actual immigrants during this time period. The book tells many facts a...

As industry was booming in the United States of America, many people from Europe decided to leave their homes and families to try and make their fortune in America. This massive immigration into the United States led to an abundance of cheap, unskilled labor in which the industries could take adv...

Is Heidi Bub a reflection of America? The traditional immigrant success story usually portrays an immigrant family who comes to America and is determined to enjoy the American dream of success through hard work. Eventually, the family, or the second generation of immigrant children, becomes a par...

Struggle for Heritage The issue of immigrants conforming to their new country's lifestyles and laws has always been debated. When a person or family first arrives in a new country, it is a hard decision whether he or she should adapt and become like everyone else living there or hold on to his ...

It now becomes clear to us that Mattie not only works for immigrants' rights, she hides illegal immigrants in her house. The novel takes a political stance, portraying Mattie's work as good and heroic. Edna and Virgie do not understand Mattie's remarks, perhaps deliberately: Virgie harbors very cons...

I am from an ethnicity and culture that is in the forefront of many political topics in this region today. I am Mexican. When this word comes up most people seem to think of illegal immigrants crossing the border. This thought can bring up much resentment and contempt from certain groups, and ...

Korean Domestic Violence A 48-year old Korean woman, mother of two sons, has been living in Los Angeles for seven years now. On the evening of July 15, 1997, her husband comes home late at night from his financially shaky liquor store in East LA. He is tired and frustrated from the d...

US Family Structure: Colonial to Domestic Structure The ideals of an American household from the late 18th century to the late 19th century shifts from a colonial to a domestic family. This is partially due to the change in economic and social conditions. European immigrants and middle-cla...

William Cather showed a great amount of information about the "old wild west" and the expansion of the United States. In My Antonia, Jim Burden told a story of his childhood, the people in his life, and the struggles he and his surroundings faced during this time. At age ten, Jim Burden was se...

In the article "For 'New Danes,' Differences Create a Divide", Roger Cohen tells the love story of a young Turkish/New Danish couple who have had to endure the profound pain of family intolerance, but nonetheless have proven the old saying "love shall prevail" to be tru...

Every creature seeks to find greener pastures, but humans are no doubt the greatest of immigrants and migrants. We are ever pursuing new lives in new places. Throughout many generations the dispossessed continue to emerging and the brave keep moving from the poor conditions to the better. From 1892 ...

Working in the late nineteenth century Late in the nineteenth century, as the United States was recovering from the devastating effects of the civil war, poverty and famine began to strike the people of the country (pg 25). Financial panic sparked the beginning of a severe depression and the peop...

Like most Americans, my family is made up of many different ethnic groups. My mom’s side is Irish Protestant descent. My dad’s side is mostly English descent and a little of Native American descent from his mother. There is some in which I do not know because my dad do...

The Daughter of Invention, a short story by Julia Alvarrez, chronicles a daughter's struggles to adapt to mainstream America in New York as an immigrant from the Dominican Republic. Her family is fleeing from the dictatorial regime of Trujillo. Julia's father, who apparently is an important figure i...

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is the story of a Lithuanian family that immigrates from their home city in Lithuania to the city of Chicago. The novel begins with the strong description of a wedding in which Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Rudkus are united in Holy Matrimony. The two of them then move to C...

Among democratic nations each generation is a new people". With this quote, Alexis de Tocqueville aptly summarises the reason for the increased conflicting views between different generations of today. The Joy Luck Club and Mississippi Masala present some of the problems that frequently arise ...

American Dreamer As a student growing up in America, the American dream means to me, that you work hard and after many years of hard work it all pays off. You can relax for the rest of your life. Worrying about simple things not bills, income, and other expenses that a person could lose sleep...

The divorce of my parents on my fourteenth birthday... The death of my grandmother, my closest relative... When these tragedies occurred, I acted as though nothing was wrong, like that was how it was supposed to be. During our countries "Gilded Age", the immigrants who came fr...

The Jungle The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair is a harsh book that shows the reality of life. It tells how an immigrant goes through harsh times and death, which brings on depression, jail and a life of crime. In time, the life of crime and depression are fought off by two socialist speake...

Naturally, parents who have immigrated to a foreign country want only the best for their child. There is the desire to have that child succeed in ways they did not. However at which point does the desire for success begin to impose on an individual's happiness? Look at some of the compromises y...

Love, to most people means the showing of affection to someone or something. In the instance of my first piece of text, which is my literary text called "daddy's love" it is about a girl who lost her father whilst he was trying to rescue people during the terror strike on the twin to...

Barbara SobieszczanskaI did my immigration project on Barbara Sobieszczanska. She emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1986. The reason why she and her family who now live in Lafayette left Poland was because of the condition. Many of the educated people could not find a good paying job. Al...

Why More Hispanics Now Than Ever Are Earning College DegreesYoung Hispanics today are reaping the fruit that our ancestors planted many generations back. Most of our families immigrated to the United States from other countries. Some of our families were native to the land before it was part of the ...

The Grapes of Wrath exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America faced during the 1930's. In the central part of the United States of America, there was an area called "The Dust Bowl," because of its lack of rain. Here drought and poverty combined to...

Family Background – Arrival in America, Wealth and Values George Washington was a fourth-generation Virginian, and his background was very typical for Americans of that time. George\'s great-grandfather John Washington, arrived was an immigrant and reached American shores in 1657. John Washington ...